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The Money Nobody Printed

Where money comes from, and why most of it is only numbers in a ledger

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Wren: 28 min · Hollis: 30 min

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Your chapters

  1. Forty-one chimneys

    barter, tally stick, money

  2. The line in the green book

    bank deposit, payment, withdrawal, reserves

  3. Two pages and a pen

    loan, balance sheet, money creation, interest

  4. The path to the valley

    central bank, interest rate, inflation, repayment

  5. Goodnight, little Thimble

    the wind-down